On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:47:11 UTC, STAR0SS wrote: > > Julia devs are working hard trying to make a language than is consistent > and elegant, they don't want to add functions in Base only because they are > convenient for people coming from a particular background when there's a > more "Julian" way of doing it. Plus if you start adding matlab's function, > why stop there? Add also R and python ones, you see it's not really a > practical solution. > > The solution is to put all these in the matlabcompat package, so that > people that are familiar with matlab can have all the familiar tools they > need (meshgrid, interp1, polyfit, ...) without having to find, install and > read the docs of 10 different packages. Since these functions are > relatively simple, I'd encourage you to contribute to that package. >
This is precisely what I suggested a few posts ago. Christoph
